11.1 Interactive use (coqtop)
In the interactive mode, also known as the Coq toplevel, the user can
develop his theories and proofs step by step. The Coq toplevel is
run by the command coqtop.
They are two different binary images of Coq: the byte-code one and
the native-code one (if Objective Caml provides a native-code compiler
for your platform, which is supposed in the following). When invoking
coqtop
or coqc
, the native-code version of the system is
used. The command-line options -byte
and -opt
explicitly
select the byte-code and the native-code versions, respectively.
The byte-code toplevel is based on a Caml
toplevel (to allow the dynamic link of tactics). You can switch to
the Caml toplevel with the command Drop.
, and come back to the
Coq toplevel with the command Toplevel.loop();;
.